Re: Crash in pgCrypto? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From David Fetter
Subject Re: Crash in pgCrypto?
Date
Msg-id 20080616214614.GA2859@fetter.org
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In response to Re: Crash in pgCrypto?  (Robert Treat <xzilla@users.sourceforge.net>)
Responses Re: Crash in pgCrypto?  (Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>)
Re: Crash in pgCrypto?  (Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>)
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On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 02:48:42PM -0400, Robert Treat wrote:
> On Monday 16 June 2008 09:54:16 Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> > Mario Weilguni wrote:
> > > Could someone using the pgcrypto extension please verify this?
> > >
> > > SELECT encode(digest(null, 'md5'::text), 'hex');
> > > or
> > > SELECT digest(null, 'md5');
> > >
> > > Takes a few seconds, and then crashes the server with a Signal 11. My
> > > system is PostgreSQL 8.2.7. Seems to be an unchecked access to memory
> > > location 0.
> >
> > I think the functions were made STRICT recently, and the NULL checks
> > were removed, but people with the old definitions of the functions could
> > see the crashes.  Try removing pgcrypto and recompiling it from a fresh
> > release.
> 
> <broken record>
> I still advocate to folks to try to put contrib modules into thier
> own schemas whenever possible, so that you have the option of doing
> pg_dump -N contribmodule, makes things like this much easier to work
> around.  (And yes, I've volunteered to patch the contribs with this
> if we ever decide to make it the default setup)
> </broken record>

I, too, would be happy to do the legwork on this one.  I believe we'd
want to have both per-db and per-role settings for search_path.
What's involved with creating that latter?

Cheers,
David.
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